There was a time when Hollywood and Hollywood stars represented hope and freedom. Universal’s top star in the 1940s was Deanna Durbin (b.1921 – ) who starred in a series of hugely popular and successful light musical comedies. Durbin, a
Double standards are often nothing of the sort, and charges of double standards are often dodges by the disingenuous designed to convince the sophomoric that adhering to any kind of standard is inherently unjust. But then there are some actual
The title might be a little overblown. Everywhere online you’ll find script reviews for upcoming television and film projects. Big Hollywood won’t be breaking any new ground there. However… Over the past few weeks, thanks to a courageous Whistleblower —
Earlier in March, Tom was on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” discussing his project on HBO, “The Pacific,” which he said depicts a war of “racism and terror.” Despite what you may think, the fact that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor without
Why do we at Big Hollywood and elsewhere in the conservative blogosphere even care about James Cameron and his stupid eco-dreck cartoon? Or about Tom Hanks’ insights into the nature of American-Japanese relations World War II? Or about the conclusions
So ACORN, everyone’s favorite nuthouse, finally closed its doors. I quietly mourned, just as I had when “Just Nuts” at the local mall shut down. It had 60 kinds of nuts, including the Ogbono – which isn’t really a nut,
UPDATE: AP confirms: “Green Zone” opens to a dismal $14.5 million. The moral of the story? If you’re going to trash America and the troops, use Smurfs. The Wrap: Universal’s “Green Zone” became the latest Iraq War-themed movie to fall
The poetic irony of the delayed release of the shaky-cammed Hollywood temper tantrum known as “Green Zone” couldn’t be sweeter. Yes, the very same week our Iraqi allies held a historic election that ended up much more successful than we
Today’s New York Post: Even for Hollywood, “Green Zone” is dumbfoundingly brazen in its effort to rewrite the facts. As any reasonably informed person knows, many intelligence services (including the French, German, Chinese, Russian and British) believed Iraq had WMDs.
The lead for this story might be Matt Damon’s heartbroken disappointment over Obama’s inability to strip away our health care as the millionaire actor holds on to his, but the news about “Green Zone” — which hits theatres March 12th
Howard Zinn wants teachers to bring in whatever materials they want to your child’s class room. He wants them to use their own judgement to teach whatever they think is appropriate. He wants them to subvert the rules regarding the
As has been amply demonstrated by others, Howard Zinn was an anti-American secular humanist with heavily Marxist leanings. As I have already written, teaching the Zinn Education Project in public schools likely violates the California education code. It discriminates against
The Associated Press: The science-fiction sensation “Avatar” and the war-on-terror thriller “The Hurt Locker” lead the Academy Awards with nine nominations each, including best picture and director for former spouses James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow. For the first time since
I just finished voting for the Screen Actors Guild awards and after wading through the five “screeners” they sent me I started wondering about the leading men of today.In this day of confused metro-sexual male stars one might wonder where
[Ed. Note: This is part two of a two-part series. You can read part one here.] The Noble Redskin, or Blueskin stereotype that James Cameron’s Avatar shoves down historically ignorant sci-fi geeks throats is one of the most damaging myths
But, but, but… But, but, but… — Matt Damon, Born Boston, Mass. In the comments Jenga asks Matt, “How do you like them apples?” The two most beautiful sounds in the world: A child laughing and a Democrat conceding… Did
As we say goodbye to the first decade of the new century – and I don’t wanna hear any revisionist bellyaching about the decade not ending until December 2010 – we also say hello to the mainstream media movie critics’
BEST PICTURE – DRAMA Avatar The Hurt Locker Inglorious Basterds Precious Up In the Air BEST PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL (500) Days of Summer The Hangover It’s Complicated Julie & Julia Nine BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE Kathryn Bigelow
You can see the possibility that small acts multiplied by the millions can merge into great movements of social change. — So speaketh Howard Zinn in summing up the theme of last night’s two hour History Channel telecast of “The
A from the New York Times, September 9, 2008: The actor Viggo Mortensen has apologized to Canada after inadvertently accusing the country of policy misdeeds for which he meant to chastise political leaders of the United States. The go-round occurred
My father spent the first 31 years of his life in Communist Poland, leaving him with a distrust of major media that left him inclined to espouse this adage: “The only news you can be certain is accurate and untouched
In a publicity event for the new History Channel film “The People Speak” held at UCLA last week, actor/producer Josh Brolin was charming, self-effacing, funny, and down-right likeable. And, that was the whole reason he was there. We live in
Twelve years ago in his breakout performance as an arrogant young genius in Good Will Hunting, struggling fresh-faced actor Matt Damon sneered at his Boston psychiatrist for “surrounding yourself with all the wrong f__kin’ books. You wanna read a real
Click Here for PollOnline Survey | Website Polls | Email Marketing | Crowdsourcing SoftwareView MicroPoll Inspired by Howard Zinn’s movement to hear the people’s version of history, Big Hollywood now asks the the people to challenge the powerful (Damon, WGA)
[youtube 8PgiQpk-16I nolink] — Yes, this is the man Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Tim Robbins, Josh Brolin, Kerry Washington, Viggo Mortensen, Danny Glover, Marisa Tomei, Bruce Springsteen and many others want to turn into a Che-like pop culture figure to
